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New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
A woman who was forgotten in a courthouse holding cell for four days without food or water will not be prosecuted on the charge that landed her there, a prosecutor in Fayetteville said. A charge of selling pirated recordings was dropped after prosecutors were able to verify Adriana Torres-Flores's alibi, Deputy Prosecutor Mark Booher said.
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Isak (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
From the Associated Press: "A bailiff who forgot about a woman locked in a courthouse holding cell and left her there for four days without food, water or access to a bathroom has been suspended for 30 days but will...
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One Old Vet (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Halt sought in local efforts to enforce immigration laws SCOTT F. DAVIS A national Latino advocacy group is citing the fourday detainment of Adriana Torres-Flores as evidence that local police should not be allowed to enforce federal immigration laws. Torres-Flores, 38, of Springdale spent four days without food or water in a secure holding area of the Washington [...]
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A bailiff who forgot about a woman locked in a courthouse holding cell and left her there for four days without food, water or access to a bathroom has been suspended for
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anonymous (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
Tonight on his show, indignant liberal pundit, Keith Olbermann, plans on attacking Ms. Clinton. In Keith's defense, the Clinton camp has offered America a smörgåsbord of divisive comments from supporters like crazy Geraldine Ferraro , who has confused the struggles of privileged white women with those of African-American men. Clinton also has Mark Penn in her camp, former PR-man for Blackwater, the...
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
A statement Wednesday from the Washington County Sheriff's Office says Cpl. Jarrod Hankins will eventually return to his job. The statement says he did not intentionally leave Adriana Torres-Flores alone from Thursday until Monday morning.
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Obscure Store and Reading Room (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
For four full days, Adriana Torres-Flores was locked away and forgotten in 8 1/2-by-9 1/2-foot cell in a county courthouse. She had nothing to eat or drink. There was no toilet. "She said she was so thirsty she had to...
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Against Monopoly (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
An "illegal" Mexican immigrant, Adriana Torres-Flores, whose children were born in the U.S., spent several days in an Arkansas jail without food, water and a bathroom, and with a shoe for a pillow. The bailiff forgot about her over the weekend. Here crime? Selling her own property in the form of "pirated" DVDs and CDs. Here is the horrible story . One of the untold (or too little told) stories about...
